Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 539 Liu Zhiyuan's Predicament and Murong Nobunaga's Enlightenment
On the [-]th day of the first lunar month of the first year of Zhang Zhou Shaoming, the Zhou army who went to besiege Shuozhou in Zhujiachuan, Shuozhou, began to retreat to Fuzhou in an orderly manner.

The main force of the more than [-] troops is composed of the Datong Army of Zhou Guoxia Suidao, and the Zhejia Army from the Far Part who received the title of Marquis of Yincheng from Zhang Zhao.

In addition, Yang Hongxin of Linzhou also mobilized more than [-] people, and the Dangxiang tribes in various places sent a total of more than [-] troops.

For the depopulated and remote Daibei, dispatching more than [-] people is almost all their property, so the attack power is still very good.

Zhe led his troops to Keshenchi, Xincheng and Loufanguan many years ago, but after arriving at the city of Shuozhou, he couldn't move.

Originally, this army was not elite in Zhou State, not to mention its equipment. It was completely different from Zhou State's imperial guards, but in Dai Bei's case, it was relatively good in combat effectiveness.

Moreover, the Khitan people in Shuozhou City were unexpectedly strong, and Zhe Congyuan lacked siege weapons, so they could only keep sweeping the Khitan manors outside the city that were relocated to control the place.

At the same time, although the Khitan army from Datong City did not dare to fight Zhou's army, they were cavalry, and they had not left around Shuozhou, and they were unable to drive them away from Zhe Congyuan.

After the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, a cavalry force from Daibeiyanmen Pass suddenly broke into Shuozhou City more than ten miles away. Although there were only a few hundred people, it was already a very dangerous signal.

Because the cavalry that came was not Liu Zhiyuan's Hedong cavalry or Tuyuhun cavalry, but Khitan cavalry.

There was only one possibility for the Khitan cavalry to come out of Yanmen Pass. This was allowed by Liu Zhiyuan, and they came to fight rather than wait and see.

Zhe Congyuan knew in his heart that there was a high probability that Liu Zhiyuan had someone come to scare him into withdrawing his troops.

But Zhe Congyuan didn't dare to gamble. For the safety of the [-]-strong army, he could only decisively choose to retreat.

Although in this way, the cities built in the early stage were basically lost, but the goal of Zhe Congyuan or Zhang Zhao had been achieved.

That is to make Xia Sui and the local snakes in the Fulin area.Thoroughly imprint the brand of Da Zhou, and test their mobilization ability by the way.

In fact, Liu Zhiyuan was not far away, watching the Zhou army led by Zhe Congyuan retreat in the light snowflakes, his hands tightly holding the reins, his dark face was covered with frost.

The Datong Army, Fuzhou Zhe Congyuan, and Linzhou Yang Hongxin should have been the forces he could rely on, but because of a series of mistakes and misunderstandings, they were finally pushed to Zhang Zhao.

If there were more than [-] soldiers and horses in hand, it would not be so far. After almost three months, the Hedong soldiers and horses still only occupied Hebei County on the side of Taihang Mountain.

Others are afraid of Liu Zhiyuan's black face, but Gao Song is not afraid. He is wearing a leather robe with obvious Khitan style, and the hair on his head that is deliberately not wearing a hat is very obvious.

"King of Peiping, the conditions of Daxie are still valid. It is impossible for us to cede Yunzhou to Daqitan, but as long as these thousands of people can be released back, the four prefectures of Dai, Shuo, Wei, and Yi in the south of Yunzhou can be handed over to you." The king of Beiping, and the Han people of the four prefectures, can also stay."

Liu Zhiyuan looked at the hair on Gao Song's head, and couldn't help but sneered, "Yunzhou is the land of China, so talking about ceding it will only increase laughter!"

Gao Song showed a nonchalant expression on his face, "It doesn't matter whether it is ceded or returned, I and other people outside the Great Wall don't care, but Yunzhou really can't give it.

Because Da Xiangwen and others wanted to support the eldest son of King Dongdan, Wu Yu, as the emperor, without Yunzhou, we would not be able to fight against the emperor's elder brother Yelu Lihu, and the King of Peiping knew this.

If your majesty insists that we return to Yunzhou, then we might as well submit to the emperor's younger brother Li Hu. "

It turned out that after Yelu Wuzhi returned to the north, he collected the remnants and defeated generals all the way. Although he was constantly attacked by the Han people in Hebei, but because Zhang Zhao didn't send out soldiers to chase him, he finally fled back to Youzhou.

After gathering the thousands of defenders in Youzhou City, there are also more than [-] soldiers and horses.

Together they promoted Yelubei's eldest son, Yeluruan, as emperor, occupied Youzhou, Yunzhou and the surrounding areas, and expressed their desire to cooperate with Liu Zhiyuan many times.

As for why they still recommend Yelu Ruan at this moment?That is also impossible.

Even the Khitan people are terrified by the cruelty of Shuluping and Yelu Lihu's mother and son.

One must know that the Empress Dowager dared to force ministers to die in front of Yelu Abaoji's coffin.

At that time, the Han official Zhao Siwen asked her why the queen was not buried, and Shuluping immediately said, "It's not that I don't want to go underground to follow the late emperor, but the people are young and weak, and the country has no owner, so I can't go!"

Then he cut off his right wrist with his own hands, calmly sent it to Yelu Abaoji's coffin as a funeral substitute.

This is so hot!No, it should be said that it was vicious, and it shocked everyone, so it got the nickname of Queen Mother with Broken Wrist.

But his son Yelu Lihu is more vicious and cruel than Shuluping, and his brain is not very good, he knows how to kill people for fun, and he doesn't look like a gentleman.

If Yeluwu had pledged them to go back like this, they must have been beheaded and the tribe annexed.

Because Shuluping and Yelu Lihu's mother and son didn't need them at all, they swallowed their tribe and wiped out all the closeness of Yelu Deguang, so that the mother and son could firmly control Khitan.

Therefore, for their own safety and power, the Khitan generals who returned after a disastrous defeat collectively elected Yelu Ruan.

And I hope that 7000 people from Takamatsu will join them, so that with 20,000 people, they can barely fight against Shuluping mother and son.

Liu Zhiyuan weighed it for a long time. He didn't believe that without Yunzhou, Yelv Wuzhi and others would submit to Shuluping, but he didn't have the capital to gamble now, so he could only turn around and persuade Gao Song.

"You, Gao Mouhan, are not from Khitan, even if you are, now that you and other emperors have died in Henan, can you still not see the general trend of the world clearly?

The prosperity of the Han Dynasty and the decline of the Hu Dynasty are already inevitable, why can't they stay in Hedong, and together with a certain family, wipe out that Hexi kid, and enjoy the prosperity and wealth of the Central Plains? "

Gao Song chuckled in his heart, you Liu Zhiyuan only have less than 50,000 people horses, not as elite as the Liao army that went south last year, how can you defeat King Zhou?

But of course he would not say that in face, "A certain is nearly forty years old, and his original sons and daughters were all killed in Korea. If Liaoyang's sons and daughters are gone, I am afraid that there will be no future generations in this life.

What's more, most of the soldiers and horses under his command have family members outside the Great Wall. People's hearts are uneasy, and the army's mind is returning. If they stay by force, they may not have much combat power. Please also have mercy on me and other foreign barbarians. "

Liu Zhiyuan was really unwilling to let these thousands of people go, but he didn't seem to be able to use it if he didn't let them go.

It's just that now that Zhang Zhao occupies the land of Henan, and there are Guanzhong and Hexi Longyou in the rear, it's really impossible to fight against the tens of thousands of people in Hedong alone!

The envoy of the Liao Kingdom at the side saw Liu Zhiyuan's expression softened, and immediately began to persuade him.

"When we came, my lord and Da Xiangwen told my ministers that if the king of Peiping is willing, my lord is willing to stay with him in Dingzhou for a while.

At that time, if the king has other conditions, they can discuss them face to face. Now that the Southern Dynasty is powerful, we both need to watch and help each other a lot! "

At this point, Liu Zhiyuan could only nod his head. Now Dingzhou is half in the hands of Liu Zhiyuan and half in the hands of the Khitan people. It is a good place to meet.

So he said to the Khitan envoy: "That's fine, it's better to set it up in a month later, when the time comes, a certain family will meet with your lord and Daxiang personally for a while."

. . . .

Qiande Palace, Chongde Palace, Zhang Zhao is listening to Hebei's report.

This time, Liu Zhiyuan seemed to have benefited enormously, occupying five or six prefectures in Hebei, and his territory almost doubled.

But in Zhang Zhao's eyes, through Liu Zhiyuan's expansion, he also had a clear understanding of the power of the Hedong army, which was still in the mist.

Zhang Zhao discovered that Liu Zhiyuan's headquarters had less than [-] infantry and cavalry, and the rest were almost all cavalry from the Hedong Fan tribe.

With such little strength, if Zhang Zhao were Liu Zhiyuan, he would be so old, and he would go south and surrender quickly to become a hereditary prince, so why bother?

He seems to occupy more than half of Hebei now, but it only takes one battle, and he will immediately show his original shape.

Without soldiers and horses, no matter how much territory they occupy, the overall strength of Hedong is probably far inferior to that of Mengshu and Nantang.

While Zhang Zhao was listening to the report, the old brothers came into the palace noisy.

From Yan Jin and Ma Yaozi to Man Xiong and Dunzhu, plus Murong Nobunaga and Li Cunhui, this is Zhang Zhao's core force.

The old brothers all won the hereditary titles, and they were all very happy.

But Zhang Zhao sighed suddenly after they were all seated and drank a few glasses of wine.

Ma Yaozi touched the crown of the county prince on his head unaccustomed, and said to Zhang Zhao proudly.

"The sage is worried about the situation in Hebei? Humph! Then Liu Zhiyuan is so ignorant, and the few generals are still stubbornly resisting. This kind of person doesn't know what to do. Please ask the sage to send someone to Hebei. Only [-] troops are needed to capture this farmer alive!"

When the other people heard this, they immediately got excited and scolded Liu Zhiyuan one after another, expressing that they wanted to share the saint's worries.

Zhang Zhao waved his hand, "Liu Zhiyuan's grave is dead, I'm not worried about him, but just received news from Khotan.

The King of Persia, Hamid, even sent troops to attack and kill Rashid Salaman, and wanted to annex the City of Huwen.

Zhenyuan State advocated that Bingzhong colluded with Tubo Guge King Jidenimagun, and also cut off the way to Tianzhu. "

Rashid Saliman is Zhang Zhao’s important pawn in the northeast of Huwen City (Kabul) to control the trade routes. He also sent people to Yanqi near the sea to participate in the campaign to elect Zhang Zhao as Ili Khan. He is quite loyal up.

Zhenyuan State claims that Bingzhong is Cao Yanmian's uncle, and Zhenyuan State is an important country established by Zhang Zhao after the destruction of Tianzhu Xia Xi.

The original intention was to use it to control the Tianzhu Continent, but after only a few years of leaving, Zhang Bingzhong closed the door and wanted to stand on his own. He didn't even send anyone to congratulate Zhang Zhao's birthday and enthronement.

"Huwen City and Tianzhu were all brought down by us in the past. Without the kindness and trust of the saints, the Persian king Hamid and Zhang Bingzhong have long since separated their heads. How can they enjoy wealth again?
So ignorant of loyalty, please ask the saint to give Bai Congxin five thousand horses, and then go and behead the heads of these two thieves and come back to offer it to the king! "

After hearing this, Bai Congxin shouted angrily.

Hearing this, this group of old brothers recalled the glorious days in Hezhong, Khorasan and Tianzhu, and they wanted to kill Hamid and Zhang Bingzhong one by one.

Among the crowd, only Murong Xinchang lowered his head, looked at the screaming Bai Congxin and the others, and suddenly thought in his heart that the hereditary title of his cheap father might not be so easy to get.

It is estimated that he will know immediately, what is the price?

(End of this chapter)